Hevy Festival 2012
After the weekend that I’ve had all I can say is what a great little festival this is! I came away definitely feeling I’d got my moneys worth. Although the organisation in the queue was shoddy and slow, but it didn’t take long to camp and set up once we were in. After overhearing a few bands from our tent while we drank some beers, we finally ventured up to the arena and bought some stage times. Disappointed that this is the only way to get the stage times, but they have to make their money somehow.…

Download Festival 2012
Where do I begin? One of the best weekends of my life by a long way, despite the weather. We were unlucky in that it started pouring down with rain Thursday lunchtime, just as we came through the wristband exchange. But we set up, chilled about all afternoon and evening. Got some beers down, but crashed early that night. Weather put me in a miserable mood.

Waking up to it Friday didn’t help either, I’d slept poorly and was feeling slightly ill, my hoodie was soaked from the rain before we had our tent set up so…

Slam Dunk 2012

After an unreasonably long queue, resulting in some painful sunburn, we were finally in.

Lower Than Atlantis were the first band, pretty good performance as always. Unfortunately, it was too hot to really get in there and jump around, but a good show regardless 7

Headed over to the Vans stage next and saw a bit of Make Do and Mend who were very good, having never heard any of their stuff before I was very impressed. Definitely going to invest in their album. 7

Next up were a Sharks, a band who I was very…

Best Gigs of my life

A Day To Remember @ Brixton Academy, February 2011
Letlive @ Download 2011
Enter Shikari @ Dingwalls, June 2011
Rise Against @ Brixton Academy, November 2011
Lower Than Atlantis @ The Garage, January 2012
Frank Turner @ Wembley Arena, April 2012
Descendents @ Hevy 2012
Refused @ HMV Forum, August 2012
Green Day @ Reading 2012
Alexisonfire @ Brixton Academy, December 2012
Deftones @ Brixton Academy, February 2013
Billy Talent @ Warped Tour UK 2013
A Day To Remember @ Ally Pally February 2014
Brand New @ Hit The Deck Bristol 2014
The Dillinger Escape…

Review - Reading Festival 2011.

Basically, a list of the bands I saw, my thoughts on the set, and a Rating for them out of ten.
Also, I saw some other bands, but not for a long enough period to judge their performance.

Friday

Architects were the first band for me, delivered a killer performance, slow setlist towards the end though, lost the crowd a bit due to the rain. 5/10

The Blackout Came next, and were shockingly poor. A setlist predominantly of new material was clearly a bad choice, and the rain just made it all the more miserable.…